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fighting a patent is quite expensive and hard and in case of proper patents (and many less proper) unlikely to succeed else many patent trolls wouldn't be able

fighting a patent is quite expensive and hard and in case of proper patents (and many less proper) unlikely to succeed else many patent trolls wouldn't be able to earn so much money This is the reason why most times patents are not fought until someone gets sued even through at that point more things are at risk, like temporary restricted sales, so normally a precaution patent invalidation should be preferred by the company starting to sell products where they know someone is patent trolling. But it isn't, as it's too expensive. There probably had been cases of big companies using a "try to drown small company in lawsuits even if they are spurious" approach, but IMHO this is the wrong way to limit such power abuse (the right way is painful panelties and reparation if they are found to do so and reasonable fast court actions to stop this abuse until courts are settled).

dathinab 3y ago
I hope this pushes other platforms to provide some more memory channels, could be tricky for AMD due to them wanting to commit to AM5 and I'm not sure if you can retrofit it. Through then most consumer applications don't necessary need/profit much from the wider memory bandwidth as more bandwidth is harder to use then faster memory speed. And more channels in a "motherboard not on-die" setup is much more costly for everyone (motherboards + CPUs + end user) then for on die. So maybe new CPUs with some on-die memory with their own channels + 2 classical channels is more likely. But then more on-die L3 or L4 cache (e.g. X3D) is probably more useful then on-die RAM. Hm, it's fun how in some way apples CPUs mismatch most of the consumer marked, but then Apple PRO models don't sell to most of the consumer marked.